The Folly of Urbanization

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Hello! Wakey-wakey!

If you cram people into hyper-urbanized environments, you turn them into sitting ducks for any new germ that comes along. Especially if you take their cars away and stuff them into mass transit. That slurping sound is a hungry virus licking its lips.

Early this morning my wife saw a fox trotting up our sidewalk. You’re not supposed to see them. But their hiding places have been systematically uprooted and paved over, as the philosopher-kings labor to turn our lovely small town–not so lovely as it used to be!–into a noisy, crowded, ugly city. Gives ’em more clout within the Democrat Party, you see.

After decades of scheming and finagling for it, they’ve finally got high-rise dwellings in the middle of downtown, having gotten rid of several acres of parking space. They’ve got shills writing in to the local–ahem!–newspaper bragging about what a swell time they’re having in the high rise and how they, superior beings that they are, don’t need cars anymore and ain’t they just as cute as buttons? Their dwellings have been erected within yards of our very busy railroad tracks. How they manage with the noise is something they don’t talk about.

But make way for Agenda 21! Progress, progress!

What it looks like is a plan to first turn the towns into small cities and then connect the dots to transform all of central New Jersey into one big gigantic city. And stack all the people on top of each other, jam them together like sardines, because that’s supposed to make it easier to control them.

Hey, no problem! Mandatory universal vaccines, against every disease known to humankind–that’ll protect us. Mandatory lots of other things, too. Laws are cumbersome; mandates are cool: stroke of the pen, law of the land.

When progressives say “progress,” watch out.

Are We Too Stupid to Learn Anything?

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I’ve begun to fear that America and the rest of the West will learn absolutely nothing from the worldwide coronavirus disaster (unleashed on us by China): that people are either so committed to wicked and insane ideologies, or else just so damned stupid, that their heads might as well be made of wood.

You’d think even the most limited intellect would be able to grasp the concept that hyper-urbanization, jamming people into cities as densely as you can and packing them into mass transit every day, is just asking for another pandemic to mow them down; and you’d think even a Democrat could understand that “open borders” is a potentially suicidal policy.

But I have this creepy, crawly feeling that instead of learning anything, the West’s big shots and opinion-shapers will double down on all the absurd, asinine, and wicked errors that landed us in this mess.

They’ll give us more transgender, more gay rights, more globalism, more socialism, more tyranny, more “diversity,” more Climate Change, more Greta, more Soros–more of everything bad, everything that’s crazy, everything that’s damned. They are either that stupid, that evil, or actually cursed by God. Cursed for the things they did, and allowed to be done, in that horrible 20th century.

What can we do but pray? And speak the truth? And you can already get in trouble for doing those things. But I’m afraid we have to.